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Not only is AMD planning to release new chips....they should also work with current compatible motherboards. Going Core2Quad will leave you behind..... since it's incompatible with Intels copycat Native Quad core Nehalem that will appear sometime in the future. AMD are back in business and are innovating as usual.

Wednesday, AMD disclosed plans for a six-processor model in the second half of 2009 that can fit in the same computers that use current chips. Then, in the first half of 2010, the company plans a more fundamental makeover of its chip design to include models with six or 12 processors, said Randy Allen, an AMD vice president and general manager of its server-workstation division

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As much of an AMD fan I am, the current execs over there have taught me that they are at best a bunch of dreamers right now. Although I do have hope, I really don't have that much faith right now. Let alone trust in their statements. At this rate, next year I may be building my first Intel system in several years.
Faith is good Thunder, but you have to have an open mind.

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2nd half of '09 am i the only person seeing this?? Mhz for Mhz its still not going to outperform what intel has right now, and its not like intel is going to sit on their butts for the next 1.5 years either. I'd really love to see AMD bounce back from the hole they dug themselves but its just not gonna happen that soon. They can't beat Intel on performance so now they are going to get into a who has the most cores competition. Intel has a better manufactoring process so its not like AMD is going to win that battle either. AMD's marketing department is writing checks that their design engineers can't cash, and its killing peoples faith in the company, mine included.

What is with the glued cores for the 12 core model, isn't native the only good way to make a multicore CPU. Man im REALLY starting to feel dizzy from all this AMD marketing spin. They should just fire all their marketing people and focus on making solid performing products again.

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I build and use both Intel and AMD machines. Whoever acts like a dickhead in support of one platform or the other needs to have their junk put in a meatgrinder while they are waterboarded and alternately torched with a flamethrower and exposed to freezing cold water.

The consumer that actually has a brain and uses it supports competition instead of championing one product over the other and acting like a retard over the internet. It seems like such a small population for which the brain isn't a vestigial organ.

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AMD have already stated that future AM3 processors will be compatible with existing AM2+ motherboards....great backwards compatibility. However with Intel P35,X38,X48 that's the end of the road...so AM2+ users will enjoy the benefits of future CPU technology without the expense of DDR3 and New Motherboards.
The difference between AMD gluing and Intel gluing CPU'S together is that AMD maintains superior Technology while Intel still uses Antient FSB that was left behind by AMD LONG AGO. AMD are the smarter choice! Intel only went native Quad core because AMD have proven it's the right way forward...AMD are the first for most things...Intel copy constantly. Intel piggy pack off of AMDs success....AMD care for customers and that's important and are the real innovators! AMD are the masters and I will always follow them no matter what!

AMD filled a gap in the market with Triple core processing! Triple core is a real Innovation and many are applauding AMD's efforts! Intel have no Triple Core!

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Hmm, so thunderman is still alive. I was sure he would have hung himself by now, unable to cope with the reality of intel's current market superiority.
But I guess he lost his ability to distinguish between real life and the funky-town make belief world that exists only within his crazy little head.

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AMD have already stated that future AM3 processors will be compatible with existing AM2+ motherboards....great backwards compatibility. However with Intel P35,X38,X48 that's the end of the road...so AM2+ users will enjoy the benefits of future CPU technology without the expense of DDR3 and New Motherboards.
The difference between AMD gluing and Intel gluing CPU'S together is that AMD maintains superior Technology while Intel still uses Antient FSB that was left behind by AMD LONG AGO. AMD are the smarter choice! Intel only went native Quad core because AMD have proven it's the right way forward...AMD are the first for most things...Intel copy constantly. Intel piggy pack off of AMDs success....AMD care for customers and that's important and are the real innovators! AMD are the masters and I will always follow them no matter what!

AMD filled a gap in the market with Triple core processing! Triple core is a real Innovation and many are applauding AMD's efforts! Intel have no Triple Core!